Mike Florio: Bears are going to be really fun to watch
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00:00And you can imagine that people here in Chicago are super excited about watching Caleb Williams
00:05get to work.
00:06Now that there's a full body of work from the preseason, the roster at least has its
00:10initial 53 people on it.
00:13What would you say the proper level of excitement about Caleb Williams this season should be?
00:18Well, you know, I've heard people compare the Bears potentially last year's Texans.
00:22The difference is the Texans were anonymous and there wasn't that same hype with CJ Stroud.
00:29And they had all their games tucked into the one o'clock Eastern window on Sunday, except
00:35at the very end of the season when they got flexed to Saturday night for the AFC South
00:38Championship game.
00:39I mean, the Bears are going to be on NBC facing the Texans week two, so they can't hide.
00:45And they're in a tough division.
00:46So I think that the Bears are going to be competitive, they're going to be fun to watch.
00:50Caleb Williams reminds me of Patrick Mahomes, and I think he's the first guy in this new
00:54generation of quarterbacks who were young.
00:57He was 16 when Mahomes started doing Mahomes-ian things.
01:00And guys realize, hey, if I've got the physical ability, there's a different way I can play.
01:04And they start emulating it.
01:05And then all of a sudden, six years later, here's Caleb Williams looking a lot like a
01:09carbon copy of Mahomes.
01:10So I think there's reason to be excited.
01:12The great equalizer in all of these situations are injuries.
01:16And we don't know who's going to get injured.
01:17We don't know when they're going to get injured.
01:18We don't know how many games they're going to miss.
01:20But injuries will change everything.
01:23We see it in the preseason, we'll see it week one.
01:28And that's the thing that can take the air out of the balloon for any team.
01:30We know it's going to happen.
01:31And the key is staying healthy, getting consistent, and being better and better throughout the
01:35year.
01:36And you hope to peak in the postseason and win a few games.
01:39I think the Bears could be in the mix for a playoff berth this year.